JAKKS Pacific recalled about 17,500 of its Mario Kart ride-on racer cars after learning the battery-operated toy could cause a crash if the acceleration pedal is clogged with debris. The alert, which was issued Thursday, involves the Mario Kart 24V Ride-on Racer that is red, white and blue in color with the letter “M” in the center of a white circle on the front. The manufacturing codes affected by the recall are: 1752VE01, 1782VE01, 1952VE01, 2242VE01, 2352VE01, 2852VE01 and 0583VE01. The codes can be found underneath the vehicle at the bottom of a blue panel. The company said the versions currently…

Last updated: April 26, 2024 05:33 EDT | 2 min read Taiwan prosecutors charged 32 individuals with fraud and money laundering linked to ACE Exchange, the Taipei Times reported Friday.The Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office indicted key figures involved with the exchange. These include founder David Pan, his business partner Lin Keng-hong, and former chairman Wang Chen-huan.In a staggering fraud, prosecutors estimate over 1,200 people lost a combined total of NT$800m ($24.56m).Prosecutors allege that starting in 2019, the suspects convinced investors to buy NFTC tokens, bitnature coins, mochange (a token created by ACE Exchange), and other tokens. They are also accused of…

Google parent company Alphabet joined a handful of rival tech giants paying dividends, announcing its first-ever planned payout during its latest quarterly results, which were driven by momentum in search and plans to be even more dominant in AI.  The $0.20 cash dividend will be paid June 17 to shareholders of record as of June 10 for all three classes of company shares A, B and C. The search giant also authorized $70 billion in new share repurchases. The company is sitting on $108 billion in cash. Stocks In This Article: “We’ve had a share repurchase program for quite some time…

The anticipation surrounding Scorpion Casino’s upcoming exchange launches has reached a fever pitch, as investors eagerly position themselves to capitalize on the project’s lucrative passive income opportunities. Even before its official launch, the Scorpion Casino ecosystem has been generating waves of excitement by consistently delivering on its promises of daily payouts to presale participants.Testimonies have flooded social media platforms like X (Twitter), with numerous individuals sharing their experiences of receiving up to 10,000 USDT in daily passive staking income from this licensed and regulated global Casino and Betting Platform. This remarkable feat, achieved during the presale phase alone, has solidified…

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor identified a key contradiction underlying former President Donald Trump’s defense at Thursday’s Supreme Court hearing on whether he is immune from prosecution in a case charging him with plotting to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. The discrepancy lies in Trump’s legal team arguing that presidents can’t be prosecuted for “official acts” committed while in office unless they are both impeached and convicted by the U.S. Congress. For example, even if a president ordered a military coup or sold nuclear secrets to a foreign power — two hypotheticals posed by Supreme Court Justice…

Rich Polk/Bravo (2) Carl Radke didn’t take the high road when it came to comparing his career with Lindsay Hubbard’s on the latest Summer House episode. “I feel like I’ve been hustling, and I have things going on,” Carl, 39, told Kyle Cooke on the Thursday, April 25, episode of the Bravo series, recalling how Lindsay, 37, previously claimed he didn’t have “hustle” or “passion” about work. Carl left Kyle’s Loverboy in 2022 and in summer 2023, when season 8 was being filmed, he had yet to return to a full-time role. While speaking to Kyle, he wondered how his…

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a former Republican presidential candidate for the 2024 race, said Thursday that any anti-Israel protesters on Florida college campuses could face expulsion for any harassing, offensive or belligerent behavior.This comes as Ivy League schools like Columbia University, Harvard and Yale have all faced pro-Palestinian protesters overtaking their campuses with encampments and intimidation towards the Jewish population. Schools like Texas, USC and the University of Minnesota have also faced challenges, with Texas and USC having more than 100 people arrested, collectively, between the two on Wednesday.DeSantis told a group of people at a “Strengthening Florida” event Thursday…

A small-town American farmboy gave the fight against food insecurity real traction.His name was John Froelich. And he helped feed the world in ways that Bob Geldof, Boy George and a galaxy of other celebrities connected to the holiday hit “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” — including global community efforts to feed the world much, much later in the 1980s — could only imagine.MEET THE AMERICAN WHO NEVER FLINCHED IN THE FIGHT FOR INDEPENDENCE, ABIGAIL ADAMSAll it took was American ingenuity, elbow grease — and fossil fuels.Froelich (pronounced fray-LICK), son of German immigrants, invented the gas-powered tractor. “He was quite an…

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Thursday voted to approve a regulation that will reinstate net neutrality rules that allow the agency to regulate broadband internet access as a telecommunications service. Net neutrality rules were first imposed during the Obama administration in 2015 but were repealed in 2017 after the Trump administration flipped control of the FCC, which returned broadband internet to being regulated as an information service. With the Biden administration having returned the FCC to a majority of Democratic appointees, the agency is reinstating net neutrality rules that allow broadband to be regulated under Title II of the…

LOS ANGELES () — Ryan Seacrest celebrated 20 years at KIIS FM by going on a “Thank You” tour Thursday and he even handed out prizes to his loyal followers.It was cheers and smiles for Seacrest as the host greeted a waiting crowd at the final stop of the tour in Burbank.”I remember on the first day I was terrified,” he told Eyewitness News. “I was so nervous, filling some very big shoes on such a legendary radio station, and to be able to do it 20 years later is incredible. I love coming to work.”The day-long “Ryan’s Riding O.C.…

New York    Alphabet, the parent company of Google, bounced back from an absolutely dreadful day for tech shares, as its stock surged Thursday after the closing bell. All it had to do was to hand out billions of dollars to investors. The tech giant announced its first quarterly cash dividend, saying it will pay $0.20 per share on June 17 to shareholders of record as of June 10, as well as a $70 billion share buyback. Buybacks and dividends help to boost stock prices by rewarding investors with cash just for holding the stock but they’re widely criticized for…

The Lincoln Center Theater production of Anton Chekhov’s UNCLE VANYA, with a new version by Heidi Schreck and directed by Lila Neugebauer, just celebrated its opening night at the Vivian Beaumont Theater.BroadwayWorld was there for the big night and you can check out photos of the cast, creative team, and VIP guests below! UNCLE VANYA features Steve Carell, William Jackson Harper, Jonathan Hadary, Jayne Houdyshell, Spencer Donovan Jones, Mia Katigbak, Alfred Molina, Alison Pill, and Anika Noni Rose. The production has sets by Mimi Lien, costumes by Kaye Voyce, lighting by Lap Chi Chu and Elizabeth Harper, and sound by Mikhail Fiksel…

Trump lawyer makes admission under questioning from Justice Amy Coney Barrett Justice Amy Coney Barrett pressed Trump lawyer D. John Sauer during Supreme Court arguments on the distinction between official and personal acts alleged in the charges. University of Texas law professor Steve Vladeck shares his takeaway. Read the full article here

MANILA: A Philippine court has blocked the commercial propagation of genetically modified golden rice because it said conflicting scientific views gave rise to “severe” health and environmental safety concerns. The Philippines was the first country in the world to approve golden rice, which is enriched with the Vitamin A precursor beta-carotene and has a bright yellow colour, in a bid to combat childhood blindness. However, the Court of Appeals in Manila revoked a biosafety permit for commercial production of the rice granted by government regulators in 2021 after 14 opponents filed a challenge. The court’s ruling, issued on Apr 17…

Last updated: April 25, 2024 23:21 EDT | 1 min read The infamous “Buy Bitcoin” sign held up by Christian Langalis during Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen’s Congressional testimony in 2017 has been sold for a staggering $1 million. Langalis, also known as the “Bitcoin Sign Guy” auctioned off the Bitcoin sign sketched on a yellow legal pad between April 18-24, 7 pm ET. The final bid closed at 16 Bitcoin approximate value of $1,027,150.27, according to Scarce City, an online marketplace for Bitcoin goods and Bitcoin non-fungible tokens. The sign was sold to an unknown buyer.  And that’s a wrap…